on software installs I've noticed nics loading basically out of order.
Previously in 7.5 and 8.0 they would load left to right starting with the onboard nic(s)
with 8.1 beta I've noticed a few things
first, If I put a pci-e nic in far right slot which uses same chip/driver as the onboard, it loads as eth0 and then the onboard loads as eth1. I would expect the far right pci-e nic to load as the last one regardless of if it uses same driver as another device
Second, and sort of similar to above. though I haven't totally confirmed this working properly in previous versions since I just added one of these cards, I have 2 mutli port nic cards. First being an intel quad port gig card, the second being an intel dual port nic card. I would expect it to load the ports from top to bottom of one card before moving onto another card, instead I'm finding it is loading the 2 ports of the dual nic in between different ports on the quad nic. so if quad port 1 is eth2, dual port 1 would next load as eth3, then 2 more ports of the quad would load as eth4 and eth5 before the second of the dual loads as eth6 an then finally the last port of the quad loads as eth7.
This makes tracking which physical port is loaded as what eth device in astaro quite difficult. These 2 similar issues are also making it hard to setup custom hardware/software asg boxes in HA/cluster and track physical network connections to different switches/equipment due to the apparent randomness as to which physical port is going to load where
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